Friday, June 05, 2015

Blog Kiosk: 6/5/2015 - Dodger Links - Puig, Jansen and Julio Urias

The toast of the town, Joc Pederson, is captured in the photo above signing autographs for adoring fans prior to the start of yesterdays game. Pic above via Jon SooHoo/LA Dodgers 2015. Go here to check out more photos taken by Jon from Thursday's game.

Below are some more links to check out:

My fantasy team could really use a healthy Puig right now. Via George Alfano at MLB.com, "Puig gets two hits, hopes to return this weekend."

"I'm not 100 percent now, but it felt comfortable," said Puig, who is
in his third season with the Dodgers and has a career batting average
of .304. "I did my job, did my rehab in Arizona and I'll come back here
[to Lancaster] tomorrow night."

The 33-year-old Aardsma has pitched quite well for L.A.’s Triple-A affiliate in Oklahoma City, working to an excellent 2.41 ERA with 11.1 K/9, 3.4 BB/9 and 15 saves in 18 2/3 innings. Aardsma recently explained to The Oklahoman’s Jacob Unruh that his offseason work in a strengthening program called Top Velocity helped him add a couple of ticks back to his fastball, which is now regularly sitting in the 91-93 mph range.

Now... Back to some awesome news! Top prospect Julio Urias appears to be recovering well from his recent surgery to his eye, per a tweet by him from yesterday. He tells us that he'll be back on the field in one weeks time:

I would like to extend a hearty congratulations to LA Kings broadcaster Nick Nickson for being selected as the Hockey Hall of Fame 2015 Foster Hewitt Memorial Award winner. This award celebrates "members of the radio and television industry who made outstanding
contributions to their profession and the game during their career in
hockey broadcasting." This is the highest honor a hockey broadcaster can receive - like winning the Ford Frick Award for Baseball broadcasters. Jon Rosen at LA Kings Insider shares a recent interview with him here.

“I don’t know if it’s going to sink in anytime soon,” Nickson said on
Thursday. “I just talked to Pat Foley – he called like 10 minutes ago,
literally – who won it last year in Chicago. He was telling me it’s been
a year since he won it and he still kind of walks around and goes ‘Did
this really happen?’ I guess it’s nice to know that your work is
appreciated and the work that you do put in gets rewarded in some way.”

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